On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
(Did you intend to send that to the public list? Either way, it's here now, so replying on-list.)
The law is fine, it's just being misapplied. Writing an encyclopaedia doesn't increase knowledge, it's a tertiary source, all the knowledge is already in existence. It disseminates knowledge, something I consider to be pretty synonymous with "education". I think at this point we need a lawyer. I'll look up that case
For reference, the case is online here: http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/shaw.html though with terrible markup. I'll look for LexisNexis sources and similar, but those are typically not public, so I thought I'd share that one with the list.
M.